As much as I dislike about Discord, I can’t deny that its level of service, polish and ease of use are just superb. Especially for voice chat with friends with integrated screen sharing that just works.
There are show stoppers sometimes - occasionally messages just don’t get sent or received for whatever reason, and Discord’s handling of it is just bad. It’s pretty important for a chat app to work reliably for chat. But when it works (which is almost always), boy is it nice.
Haven’t tried Revolt and I likely can’t because of the network effect already mentioned by someone else. How does it compare in ease of use, ease of setting up, feature set for free users, etc.?
I’ve looked into Revolt and it isn’t there quite yet. But the road map is extremely promising. I’ll keep my eye on it and as soon as they finish up a couple more features I’m going to use it.
The problem is the law of popularity. My friends wont move to an open-source decentralized alternative unless their friends do and their friends wont unless their friends do and…
In case anyone is confused by this clever comment and try looking it up (I did before thinking about it), they mean “BAA” as in the sound of literal sheep following a herd lmao
I mean, it’s not just herd mentality. I’m just not willing to lock myself out of relationships because of my principles. It’s not my fault my mum can’t be convinced to ditch Whatsapp for signal. Not willing to give up communication with her.
Herd mentality would be if you did a thing because others do it even if there wouldn’t be any loss from switching to a better thing. It’s more complex if you’d lose out a great deal from the switch.
I get what you’re saying. The fact that using different services leads to a loss of social connectivity since the majority of people use one service is more an issue of the service itself being a monopoly than it is one of herd mentality.
It always goes back to capitalism when the services that become monopolies are the ones that care the least about people, since the services have already reached the “too big to fail” public perception.
EDIT: It’s also an issue of some people being too stubborn to accept change unless it is forced upon them by everyone around them
i definitely didn’t come up with it, the internet taught me a long time ago that i never do anything original. but i do like it more that ‘herd mentality’
Be the friend you want your friends to be, ask not what your friends can do for you but what you can do for your friends, that’s one small step for Linux Users One Giant leap for friendkind, what is Oswald doing in that Book Depository?
Just delete Discord now, promote Revolt
Revolt, Matrix & XMPP
Until it can do voice chat and screen share, it’s going to be discord for most users.
Does Revolt have screen sharing yet?
No
Seemed ok but is very much a toxic discord all the same
Revolt is centralized and can suffer the same fate as discord. Cinny for Matrix is currently the best Ive found.
As much as I dislike about Discord, I can’t deny that its level of service, polish and ease of use are just superb. Especially for voice chat with friends with integrated screen sharing that just works.
There are show stoppers sometimes - occasionally messages just don’t get sent or received for whatever reason, and Discord’s handling of it is just bad. It’s pretty important for a chat app to work reliably for chat. But when it works (which is almost always), boy is it nice.
Haven’t tried Revolt and I likely can’t because of the network effect already mentioned by someone else. How does it compare in ease of use, ease of setting up, feature set for free users, etc.?
I think he has Signal. (I know i have Signal) Only 1 message there, then switched back to Discord
I’ve looked into Revolt and it isn’t there quite yet. But the road map is extremely promising. I’ll keep my eye on it and as soon as they finish up a couple more features I’m going to use it.
It’s been in the same state for like five years, there’s no priority on the bits that would get it over the line
The problem is the law of popularity. My friends wont move to an open-source decentralized alternative unless their friends do and their friends wont unless their friends do and…
Baa’s Law
In case anyone is confused by this clever comment and try looking it up (I did before thinking about it), they mean “BAA” as in the sound of literal sheep following a herd lmao
hahaha i googled it after i posted it, too, just to se if i was making it up
Honestly it works well as an alternative to saying “herd mentality” (which is unfortunately accurate in this case)
I mean, it’s not just herd mentality. I’m just not willing to lock myself out of relationships because of my principles. It’s not my fault my mum can’t be convinced to ditch Whatsapp for signal. Not willing to give up communication with her.
Herd mentality would be if you did a thing because others do it even if there wouldn’t be any loss from switching to a better thing. It’s more complex if you’d lose out a great deal from the switch.
I get what you’re saying. The fact that using different services leads to a loss of social connectivity since the majority of people use one service is more an issue of the service itself being a monopoly than it is one of herd mentality.
It always goes back to capitalism when the services that become monopolies are the ones that care the least about people, since the services have already reached the “too big to fail” public perception.
EDIT: It’s also an issue of some people being too stubborn to accept change unless it is forced upon them by everyone around them
i definitely didn’t come up with it, the internet taught me a long time ago that i never do anything original. but i do like it more that ‘herd mentality’
Be the friend you want your friends to be, ask not what your friends can do for you but what you can do for your friends, that’s one small step for Linux Users One Giant leap for friendkind, what is Oswald doing in that Book Depository?
he’s reading the CompTIA Linux+ Guide to Linux Certification